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Drug Facts

  • LSD (AKA: Acid, blotter, cubes, microdot, yellow sunshine, blue heaven, Cid): an odorless, colorless chemical that comes from ergot, a fungus that grows on grains.
  • Heroin is usually injected into a vein, but it's also smoked ('chasing the dragon'), and added to cigarettes and cannabis. The effects are usually felt straightaway. Sometimes heroin is snorted the effects take around 10 to 15 minutes to feel if it's used in this way.
  • 90% of deaths from poisoning are directly caused by drug overdoses.
  • Taking Ecstasy can cause liver failure.
  • 45% of people who use heroin were also addicted to prescription opioid painkillers.
  • Morphine's use as a treatment for opium addiction was initially well received as morphine has about ten times more euphoric effects than the equivalent amount of opium. Over the years, however, morphine abuse increased.
  • Narcotics used illegally is the definition of drug abuse.
  • In its purest form, heroin is a fine white powder
  • Methadone generally stays in the system longer than heroin up to 59 hours, according to the FDA, compared to heroin's 4 6 hours.
  • It is estimated that 80% of new hepatitis C infections occur among those who use drugs intravenously, such as heroin users.
  • Opiate-based drug abuse contributes to over 17,000 deaths each year.
  • More than 1,600 teens begin abusing prescription drugs each day.1
  • Hallucinogens do not always produce hallucinations.
  • Benzodiazepines like Ativan are found in nearly 50% of all suicide attempts.
  • Heroin addiction was blamed for a number of the 260 murders that occurred in 1922 in New York (which compared with seventeen in London). These concerns led the US Congress to ban all domestic manufacture of heroin in 1924.
  • The addictive properties of Barbiturates finally gained recognition in the 1950's.
  • Approximately, 57 percent of Steroid users have admitted to knowing that their lives could be shortened because of it.
  • Narcotic is actually derived from the Greek word for stupor.
  • Heroin tablets manufactured by The Fraser Tablet Company were marketed for the relief of asthma.
  • The intense high a heroin user seeks lasts only a few minutes.

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